AI & Accounting in Retail
Overview
This course provides a concise overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming financial strategies, tax compliance, and audit practices in the global retail industry. As retailers deploy AI to personalize customer experiences, automate inventory, and optimize pricing, accounting professionals must adapt to new challenges in data integrity, regulatory compliance, and financial reporting. Drawing on real-world case studies from retail giants and small businesses alike, this course explores how AI technologies intersect with accounting workflows and outlines strategies to maintain accuracy, trust, and control in an AI-driven marketplace.
This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Information technology
Program Level: Overview
This course is being offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible on your My CPE page. Webinar access information will be emailed directly to you by CPA Crossings.
Highlights
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:
- AI-powered personalization and its impact on revenue recognition
- Dynamic pricing models and tax compliance risks
- AI in demand forecasting, inventory valuation, and COGS calculations
- Integration challenges with ERP and POS systems
- Governance, ethics, and auditability of AI decisions
- Data quality, audit trails, and regulatory documentation
- AI-assisted fraud detection, financial controls, and oversight
Prerequisites
None
Designed For
This course is ideal for accountants, auditors, and finance leaders working in or with retail businesses seeking to stay ahead of AI-driven transformation.
Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to...
- Identify AI trends transforming the retail accounting landscape
- Analyze risks associated with AI-driven financial decisions
- Apply accounting standards to AI-related investments and expenses
- Evaluate audit readiness of AI-generated data and outputs
- Design internal controls for AI-integrated financial systems
- Interpret ethical and regulatory frameworks governing AI use in retail
- Develop strategies to align accounting practices with AI innovation
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Garrett Wasny
Garrett Wasny, MA, CMC, CITP/FIBP is a professional development consultant to accountants, attorneys, and engineers worldwide and a former management consultant with Pricewaterhouse. He advises high skill knowledge workers on how to thrive in the digital age and unleash their online potential using productivity, search, mobile and social technologies. He has authored two books: Global Business Resources.com, published by McGraw-Hill, and How to Conquer the World published by Government Institutes in Washington, D.C. He has also co-authored Using the Web to Compete in a Global Marketplace, published by John Wiley & Sons. His other writing credits include 20 e-books and more than 100 published articles on internet strategy for dozens of leading business publications worldwide. He’s also an award winning speaker who’s delivered more than 1,000 webinars and seminars on internet topics to hundreds of organizations in North America, Europe and Asia.
Non-Member Price $89.00
Member Price $89.00